SARS-CoV-2 variants and COVID-19 vaccines: Current challenges and future strategies

W Gong, S Parkkila, X Wu… - International reviews of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global threat. Despite strict control measures …

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants: a review of its mutations, its implications and vaccine efficacy

S Ramesh, M Govindarajulu, RS Parise, L Neel… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The widespread increase in multiple severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2
(SARS-CoV-2) variants is causing a significant health concern in the United States and …

Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa

H Tegally, E Wilkinson, M Giovanetti, A Iranzadeh… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Continued uncontrolled transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in many parts of the world is creating
conditions for substantial evolutionary changes to the virus,. Here we describe a newly …

New SARS-CoV-2 variants—clinical, public health, and vaccine implications

SS Abdool Karim, T de Oliveira - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
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Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020

EB Hodcroft, M Zuber, S Nadeau, TG Vaughan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Following its emergence in late 2019, the spread of SARS-CoV-2, has been tracked by
phylogenetic analysis of viral genome sequences in unprecedented detail,–. Although the …

SARS-CoV-2 incidence, transmission, and reinfection in a rural and an urban setting: results of the PHIRST-C cohort study, South Africa, 2020–21

C Cohen, J Kleynhans, A von Gottberg… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background By August, 2021, South Africa had been affected by three waves of
SARS-CoV-2; the second associated with the beta variant and the third with the delta …

[HTML][HTML] Collapse of the public health system and the emergence of new variants during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

SJR da Silva, L Pena - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
The worldwide spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) has caused the most severe public health crisis since the 1918 Spanish influenza …

[HTML][HTML] The emergence and ongoing convergent evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 N501Y lineages

DP Martin, S Weaver, H Tegally, JE San, SD Shank… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The independent emergence late in 2020 of the B. 1.1. 7, B. 1.351, and P. 1 lineages of
SARS-CoV-2 prompted renewed concerns about the evolutionary capacity of this virus to …

Difference in mortality among individuals admitted to hospital with COVID-19 during the first and second waves in South Africa: a cohort study

W Jassat, C Mudara, L Ozougwu, S Tempia… - The Lancet Global …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The first wave of COVID-19 in South Africa peaked in July, 2020, and a larger
second wave peaked in January, 2021, in which the SARS-CoV-2 501Y. V2 (Beta) lineage …

Model-based estimation of transmissibility and reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 P. 1 variant

RM Coutinho, FMD Marquitti, LS Ferreira… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Background The SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC) P. 1 (Gamma variant)
emerged in the Amazonas State, Brazil, in November 2020. The epidemiological …